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October 2nd, 2017 
Awake Goy The gunman in the Las Vegas attack has been named as 64-year-old Stephen Paddock from Mesquite, Nevada, Clark County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo told Reuters.
Police are looking for a woman believed to have accompanied the suspect prior to the Las Vegas shooting.
Clark County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo said officers confronted the suspect, believed to be a local resident, on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino, just across the street from the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival.
Several officers from the Bakersfield Police Department were attending the music concert when the assailant opened fire. One was shot and taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
University Medical Center spokeswoman Danita Cohen told the Los Angeles Times that the hospital is still evaluating the condition of “many patients” with gunshot injuries.
There were reportedly so many gunshot victims that local residents took injured people to the emergency room in their cars.
Lombardo said this appears to be a ‘lone wolf’ attack, with the suspect believed not to be connected to any militant organization.
Marilou Danley is being sought for questioning re the investigation into the active shooter incident. If seen please call 9-1-1! pic.twitter.com/Z83XvcHejH
— LVMPD (@LVMPD) 2 октября 2017 г.
The shooter appeared to be using an automatic weapon, according to witness reports.
“There was blood everywhere,” one witness said.
“People were hit within 20 feet of us,” witness Rick Messick, who said he was in the front row of the concert, told CBS2.
“There were several people laying in the parking lot … they were trying to stop the bleeding,” he added.
Jose Baggett, 31, a Las Vegas resident, said he and a friend were in the lobby of the Luxor hotel-casino, north of the festival venue, when people started crying and running in all directions.
As Baggett and his friend walked away, they saw police checkpoints with officers carrying shotguns and assault rifles.
“There were armored personnel vehicles, SWAT vehicles, ambulances, and at least a half-mile of police cars,’‘ Baggett told AP.
Footage emerged on social media apparently showing people fleeing the concert venue.
Shooting in Las Vegas. People fleeing (video from the Mandalay Bay hotel) pic.twitter.com/hs98J5uK6T
— Eiki Hrafnsson (@EirikurH) October 2, 2017
The video was filmed by Twitter user Eiki Hrafnsson, who says that he is currently at the Mandalay Bay hotel which is on lockdown. Some commenters wrote that their relatives are also trapped in the hotel, while others said that they were running from “the active shooters,” implying that there may be more than one.
We’re investigating reports of an active shooter near/around Mandalay Bay Casino. Asking everyone to please avoid the area. #LVMPDnews
— LVMPD (@LVMPD) October 2, 2017
Another video has been captured, apparently during a music concert at Mandalay Bay with multiple gunshots audible in the background.
Video courtesy of Drew Akioshi. He was attending the concert at mandalay bay when shooting started. pic.twitter.com/mbyh9Y387q
— David Sakach (@davidsakach) October 2, 2017
Las Vegas Boulevard is currently shut down at Tropicana and 15 freeway is closed to traffic from Tropicana to Russell Road, according to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.
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